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Math isn't always about numbers: sometimes it's about art! Help your first grader get a grip on the more abstract concepts of math with these worksheets on shapes.
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How Many Sides?
Download Worksheet More infoHere's a geometry challenge for your first grader that puts his counting skills to work: can he count the number of sides each shape has?
Shapes and Sides
Download Worksheet More infoHere's a worksheet that gets kids thinking all about shapes and their sides to help them understand what makes a side a side.
What
Download Worksheet More infoSometimes complicated polygons can be broken up into smaller shapes that are easier to recognize. Here's a worksheet that challenges kids to do just that.
Seeing Shapes: Cones
Download Worksheet More infoHelp your child get to know 3-D shapes with this find-the-shape worksheet that asks her to circle the cone shapes, then draw examples of her own.
Seeing Shapes: Cylinders
Download Worksheet More infoA cylinder is a 3-D shape that appears in many everyday things. Help your child learn about cylinders by identifying the shape in her surroundings.
Seeing Shapes: Rectangular Prisms
Download Worksheet More infoTeach your first grader about this common shape with this worksheet that asks him to circle the everyday things shaped like rectangular prisms.
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Seeing Shapes: Everyday Circles
Download Worksheet More infoHelp your child learn circle shapes by looking for them around the house. Find 5 everyday things shaped like circles and draw them in the spaces.
Seeing Shapes: Everyday Rectangles
Download Worksheet More infoHere's a worksheet that injects some active fun into learning about shapes. Kids get to get up and search for things around the house shaped like rectangles.
Seeing Shapes: Everyday Triangles
Download Worksheet More infoIf your first grader is bored with shapes, make them fun again by combining paper and pencil shape practice with an energetic shape scavenger hunt.
Shapes in Pictures: My Kind of Town
Download Worksheet More infoShow your child that shapes are more than just lines on a page with this worksheet that challenges him to find all the shapes in the picture.
Shapes in Pictures: Outer Space
Download Worksheet More infoSpark your first grader's excitement for geometry with a little outer space shape practice. Can he count all the shapes in this space scene?
Shapes in Pictures: Secret Garden
Download Worksheet More infoHere's a worksheet that shows kids how shapes can be found in real things by asking them to find and count all the different shapes in a picture of a garden.
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Looking at Shapes: Open or Closed?
Download Worksheet More infoKids sometimes don't distinguish between a shape that's open and one that's closed. Here, kids can see the difference as they classify shapes as open or closed.
Shape Matchup: 3-D and 2-D
Download Worksheet More infoBoost your child's understanding of geometry dimensions with this worksheet that challenges her to match 2D and 3D Shapes.
Shape Dimensions: Solid Figures
Download Worksheet More infoKids get acquainted with three-dimensional shapes like cubes, cones and prisms, and practice building a bar graph while they're at it.
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